News of the Week (December 6th, 2015)

Obama Scandals

Obama’s Top 8 Idiotic Statements in Paris
In February, President Obama took out a selfie stick, winked at himself, and stated, “YOLO, man.” In June, Obama said it was time for him to fulfill his “something that rhymes with bucket list.”

Senate Holds the Line on Second Amendment Rights
On Thursday, December 3, the U.S. Senate took up H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. Despite the seemingly innocuous title, the bill set up a dramatic showdown over Second Amendment rights.

This Noted Conservative is Okay Violating Second, Fifth Amendments
We have some stellar candidates running for president, and it has been wonderful to watch them come into their own on the national stage. Republicans (conservatives in particular) should be proud that we’ve been able to develop such a strong bench to launch a bid to retake the White House. One of the things many of our candidates believe in is the supremacy of the Constitution as the very basis from which our foundation, indeed our very rights as man, are derived.

NOAA Weather Satellite Breaks Up in Orbit
A U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite retired in 2014 has suffered an apparent breakup, the second time in less than a year that a polar-orbiting weather satellite has generated orbital debris.

Obamacare

Government in Healthcare

Euthanize Minors Say Alberta, Canada MDs
The Supreme Court of Canada imposed a radical euthanasia right–lethal injection as well as prescribed poison–on the entire country last year, and opined that the medical colleges (associations) should help establish parameters,such as whether MDs opposed to euthanasia should be forced to be complicit. (Yes!) Now, even before the first sick or disabled adult has been killed, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta has opined that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be open to minors, no age limit.

Authorities Search Redlands Home Tied To Suspect Syed Farook
Authorities on Wednesday night continued to investigate a Redlands home tied to Syed Farook, a suspect identified in connection with the mass shootings that killed at least 14 people and injured at least 17 people at a social services center in San Bernardino on Wednesday morning.

Authorities Search Redlands Home Tied To Suspect Syed Farook
Authorities on Wednesday night continued to investigate a Redlands home tied to Syed Farook, a suspect identified in connection with the mass shootings that killed at least 14 people and injured at least 17 people at a social services center in San Bernardino on Wednesday morning.

Developments in the San Bernardino Shooting
The San Bernardino PD (represented by Chief Jarrod Burguan) FBI (David Bowdich) and County Sheriff’s just held a joint press conference that included a number of breaking developments that will change the way this story develops.

The San Bernardino Thing Might Not Be Over
For those of you who don’t know John Guandolo, he’s a former FBI agent and a recognized expert in counterterrorism. Guandolo goes around the country conducting workshops for local law enforcement on how to spot and deal with terrorists.

San Bernardino killers erased digital presence day before the attacks
The Muslim husband and wife behind the mass shooting in San Bernardino began erasing their digital footprint a day in advance of the deadly attack, deleting email accounts, disposing of hard drives and smashing their cellphones, according to law enforcement investigators who are treating the probe as a counterterrorism case.

Obama Names Hamas Sympathizer as New ISIS Czar
President Obama has appointed a foreign policy advisor known to be a friend of the terrorist group Hamas to be the administration’s new czar in charge of countering ISIS. The appointee, Robert Malley, has a history of sympathizing with Islamists, which makes the appointment all the more appalling.

Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Is Found Guilty on All Counts
Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State’s most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday in a federal corruption trial, ending a case that was the capstone of the government’s efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence peddling in Albany.

The Insiders: Ill winds blow for the Democrats
In case you needed any confirmation, some recent polling data show just how pessimistic voters are less than a year before the next presidential election. Currently, in the RealClearPolitics polling average, only about 28 percent of Americans think the country is on the right track. President Obama’s approval ratings are in the doldrums, with 51 percent of Americans disapproving of the job he is doing as president.

Trump gets OK to use Twisted Sister song
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider says he gave Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump permission to use the band’s hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” on the campaign trail.

Students At N.Y. School Demand Censorship, Gender-Neutral Pronouns
A group of Hamilton College (New York) students published a list of almost forty demands on Tuesday, which the group insists that the university must begin implementing within 24 hours in order to end “the inevitable tokenization of all marginalized bodies” at the school.

Maryland Deputy AG Reveals Secrets In Hotel Meetings With Undercover O’Keefe Reporter
New undercover video released by the conservative journalism group Project Veritas shows a high-ranking Democratic official with the Maryland attorney general’s office speaking candidly about his strong opposition to gun rights and spilling official secrets during bar and hotel-room meetings with a 21-year-old undercover female reporter.

Texas Secession Effort Surfaces Again
A Texas state Republican Party member is presenting a resolution to Republican Party of Texas officials that could put state secession to a vote by primary voters.

“White Student Union” Facebook Page Prompts Concern
A Facebook page purporting to represent a “union” of white Harvard students surfaced on the social media platform last week, prompting outrage among students who denounced it as racist and an investigation into its origin from University administrators.

Media Minimize Mexico’s Role in Spread of Debilitating Virus Hitting U.S.
Lost in much of the media coverage of new domestic cases of chikungunya, a painful and sometimes debilitating mosquito-borne virus, is that Mexico has been experiencing an alarming rise in infections that could potentially spread across the porous border. And there is already evidence of at least one case arriving from Mexico.

New State Department Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton Slept Past Staff Efforts to Set Up Intelligence Briefing
Judicial Watch today released a new batch of emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton connected to the Benghazi attack. Included is an email chain showing that Clinton slept late the Saturday after the Benghazi attack and missed a meeting that her staff had been trying to set up about sensitive intelligence issues, including the Presidential Daily Brief, on a day she was to make a slew of phone calls to foreign leaders.

Who Lost Eurasia?
Item 1: The strategic doctrine known as “Eurasianism” calls for the Kremlin to achieve global dominance by uniting a Moscow-headquartered totalitarian “heartland” bloc consisting of Continental Europe, the former Soviet Union, and a revived Persian empire against the “rimland” West.

Supreme Court on Verge of Banning Affirmative Action
In the education case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a Supreme Court majority appears ready to strike down affirmative action because “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

How Multiculturalism Took Over Comic Books
Last week Marvel comics announced that it was replacing Bruce Banner (old, white guy) with Amadeus Cho (young, Korean guy) as the Incredible Hulk. This comes on the heels of Marvel recently turning Thor into a woman, Ms. Marvel into a Muslim teenager, and Spider-Man into a kid who’s half African-American and half Puerto Rican but, disappointingly, still male, heterosexual, and cisgendered. As you can see, there is much progress yet to be made.

Obama Administration Announces 144 Big Regulations
President Obama is nothing if not predictable. Required by law to release plans for new regulations twice a year, the administration has consistently done so just before major holidays, when few are paying attention.

Bye, bye, bananas
In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in the world that could be exported. But a fungus, known as Panama Disease, which first appeared in Australia in the late 1800s, changed that after jumping continents. The disease debilitated the plants that bore the fruit. The damage was so great and swift that in a matter of only a few decades the Gros Michel nearly went extinct.

Opinion

Political Correctness Goes To War on American History
George Orwell once remarked that Stalin’s Soviet Union was a place yesterday’s weather could be changed by decree. America, it seems, is not wholly immune to this totalitarian impulse either. It increasingly manifests itself in political correctness, a phenomenon that is flourishing at elite American universities.

Why Doesn’t the GOP Elite Give Up on Amnesty?
If the Republican establishment is so panicked about Donald Trump – a wild, proto-fascist egomaniac with his finger on the button, in their telling – you’d think it would do the one thing that would almost certainly stop him

A Modest Proposal for Princeton and Yale
Richard Epstein reviews the sorry record of Woodrow Wilson over at Ricochet, but concludes correctly that it is a stupid idea to start stripping names off of university programs. But if the prissy Princetonians insist on renaming the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs, here’s a modest suggestion: Rename it for Warren Harding!

Abolish the Department of Agriculture
I have been writing for months about the Export-Import Bank being one of the worst crony programs in Washington. However, I think the programs under the Department of Agriculture may take the cake. I have written many times about the outrageous sugar program — a racket that protects a politically powerful cartel of domestic sugar-processing companies at the expenses of consumers and taxpayers. Then, there is awful ethanol program. We also have programs like the Dairy Margin Protection Program (DMPP) and the Dairy Market Stabilization program (DMS). DMPP effectively guarantees profits for dairy farmers and DMS is a complicated program meant to drive up milk prices to benefit small-scale dairy farmers.

Why Do People Keep Falling for Campus Race Hoaxes?
It’s happened again, this time at Kean University in New Jersey. On November 18, an anonymous Twitter user (@keanuagainstblk) posted a series of tweets that included racist comments and a threat to “shoot any black person i see at kean university.”

Dear @Clementine_Ford …
Never has anyone directly criticized Clementine Ford who was not presumed guilty of “misogyny” or some other such Thought Crime.

It’s Not the Guns, It’s the Evil
These are confusing times, as a generation unfamiliar with the nature of evil senses a gathering storm. It’s easy to blame guns when you don’t understand that the West is engaged in a multi-front struggle for existence with evil.

When “Diversity and Inclusion” Become Exclusion
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has sent out “best practices” guidelines for Christmas holiday end of year parties, and you have to read it not to believe it. Here’s the whole thing, but here are some highlowlights.

Subordinating the Constitution to progressive internationalism: From Libya to climate change
In his speech at the global climate change conference in Paris, President Obama made it clear that he would like to reach an international agreement that would mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, with each nation binding itself to targets to reduce carbon emissions. What was missing from his speech (and elsewhere) was an acknowledgement that to be binding on the United States any such agreement would need to be in the form of either an executive agreement that would require the approval of both houses of Congress, or a treaty, which would require a positive vote from two-thirds of the Senate. It’s very unlikely that either of these things would be forthcoming from the Republican-controlled Congress.

The New York Daily News Hates Everything America Stands For
No, I’m not talking about their ludicrous anti-prayer cover; it’s their right to put whatever ridiculous pulp on their cover that they want to sell papers. I’m talking about this absurd piece that treats talking about Jesus at work as a literal capital offense. The story focuses on Nicholas Thalasinos, a Messianic Jew who CNN has already sort of blamed for the Muslim San Bernardino killer’s terrorist rampage that left 14 dead and over a dozen more injured.

Louisiana Republicans deserve the next four years
Aside from stabilizing a bleeding budget with structural changes, the governor-elect wants to pass legislation that has been consistently defeated in the past like raising the minimum wage, an equal pay law for women, expanding Medicaid and increasing the earned income tax credit.